Fast liquid-crystal elastomer swims into the dark
By M. Camacho-López, H. Finkelmann, P. Palffy-Muhoray, Michael J. Shelley. Nature Materials, 2004
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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering
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- Shape control of active surfaces inspired by the movement of euglenids (2014, background): “…elastomers (Warner and Terentjev, 2007; DeSimone and Teresi, 2009) actuated by temperature (deHaan et al., 2012), light (White et al., 2008; Camacho-Lopez et al., 2004), or electric field (Fukunaga et al., 2008), and biohybrid constructs consisting of muscle cells attached to elastomer…”